PF News

Yay, 2 of my bots are over 1000!!
*does little dance with Kiyana and Cipala*

Thanks, AbatedDust! Congrats CptGreedle!

If anyone reading this has posted in Great Quotes before August 2004, make sure your email address is valid. If you update it, send me an email to let me know. My Bot Conversations emails will be going out tomorrow most likely.

well i'm back and who knows i might stay on for more than a day....

Prof, do you need a publisher? I'm on good terms with the people at Syngress Publishing since they put out the book I worked on. I'd be happy to make a referral.

Yes! I went to Barnes and Noble last weekend and got a list of humor-book publishers and a book about publishing. Apparently having connections is extremely important, so yes, please tell me about Syngress Publishing. What book did you work on? You can email me.

If anyone else has publishing contacts, experience, or advice, please feel free to share it.

Here's a list of botmasters I'd like to contact about the book that had either no email address listed or an expired email address. If you're on the list or know someone on the list, please email me a working email address (benji@daystream.com) so I can get this letter out. Your email address will be kept private, as always.

Seeking Email For
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Napoleon
heavy metal frk6
Clownfishgirl
bot queen
RiGa
OJenO
Gabby
metamurray
Irina
Alan
Paint Patricia
ryoko
somealien
Eibmoz
Forest of Death
Dana25
Psy
mercyfuladdict
Zeero
Squaddster
MightyMaus
leynagrl
ploppy & bongo (same email)
Turing's Dad
tim_mac
dehavensangel
chicky
ryokorocks2001
Pamagester
Glitch
botmaster
ZBoob
Miss Mod
Ignatz
heidis
Water Snake
Hacker4
Rrazorr
isaacc
zenkatz
taryn
Someone_Special
lygn88
IEnjoyPaperclips
EbenA
mawcor624
Garthor & DaniExpress (same email)
Silvertoekee
Moonsilver
fantomette
SubliminaLiar
Daemon
shi
Blitzman

I was co-author for Google Hacking for Penetration Testers by Johnny Long. It actually hit #5 on the Amazon best seller list for a day or two. Syngress is a great outfit - small and personal

Howdy, y'all! Welcome back, ruebot!

Thanks prof, hope you are having a good time here

Thank you sooo much professor!!! I am so glad you added that new rating filtration. There were too many times Kiyana will chat with someone who I know does not want to (or not old enough to). I was hoping you'd add this cause it was making me nervous!
Thanks!

Hooray! No more strange conversations for Luigi!

CptGreedle, I've strengthened the protection since you posted, check out the revised news.

In some ways this increased protection is good, in others, I'm not entirely happy about it. Personally, I'm not a big fan of censorship. The "protect the children" line you hear these days doesnt exactly apply to kids in their mid-teens. Teens are reaching sexual maturity at earlier and earlier ages. Some say it's from hormones found in our food and in materials we come into contact with. Whatever the reason, it happens long before age 18. Certainly by age 16, and sometimes earlier, perhaps around age 13-14. And as this happens they become interested in sexual topics. We've certainly seen that in some of the chats. These kids are often way more nasty and dirty than any of the bots here.

By preventing these chats, these kids will probably either a) start talking dirty to bots rated 'Everyone' and 'Teen' or b) create an account and claim to be 18.

However, there are times when I certainly agree with censorship. Bots approaching minors who havent reached sexual maturity with things meant for adults is certainly something we dont want to happen. This upgraded rating system prevents that. And that's definitely a good thing. If someone's not going out of their way to have an adult chat, it wont happen.